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Serotypes and genotypes of invasive pneumococci in the central part of Slovenia.
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift - 1 Sept 2015
Müller Premru Manica, Beović Bojana, Pokorn Marko, Cvitković Špik Vesna
Abstract excerpt
To investigate epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in the central part of Slovenia in a population with no routine pneumococcal vaccination, we carried out serotyping of isolates by sequential multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and genotyping by repetitive sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) and some by multilocus sequence typing. IPD was confirmed in 134 (26.5 %) of 510 acutely ill patients,...
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